hey people i just got a very interesting e-mail



For what it's worth............if nothing else, this is interesting......

In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was this Doctor that
visited the many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu.
Many of the farmers and their family had contracted it and many died.
The doctor came upon this one farmer and to his surprise, everyone was
very healthy.
When the doctor asked what the farmer was doing that was different
the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the
rooms of the home, (probably only two rooms back then). The doctor
couldn't believe it and asked if he could have one of the onions and
placed it under the microscope. She gave him one and when he did
this, he did find the flu virus in the onion. It obviously absorbed
the virus, therefore, keeping the family healthy. Now, I heard this
story from my hairdresser in AZ. She said that several
years ago many of her employees were coming down with the flu and so
were many of her customers. The next year she placed several bowls
with onions around in her shop. To her surprise, none of her staff
got sick. It must work.. (And no, she is not in the onion
business.)
The moral of the story is, buy some onions and place them in bowls
around your home. If you work at a desk, place one or two in your
office or under your desk or even on top somewhere. Try it and see
what happens. We did it last year and we never got the flu. If this
helps you and your loved ones from getting sick, all the better. If
you do get the flu, it just might be a mild case.. Whatever, what have
you to lose? Just a few bucks on onions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In 1919 ....

The doctor couldn't believe it and asked if he could have one of the onions and placed it under the microscope. She gave him one and when he did
this, he did find the flu virus in the onion.

Ummm...you can't see a virus under an optical microscope and a quick lookup shows that the first prototype for an electron microscrope wasn't built until 1931.

Story is bunk.

[edit on 10/30/2009 by EnlightenUp]

Protip, it took scanning electron microscopes to see a virus. The ldea that a doctor back then could see a virus is preposterous. This single fact alone leaves no credibility for anything else in that story.
The first electron microscope prototype was built in 1931 by the German engineers Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll.
This is long after your story.

Sorry, hope I wasn't too harsh

But what if the belief that the onions were working kept the virus away or somehow protected the believers ? Sure , can be proved to be a scam.However the mind works in mysterious ways .....

We were talking about this the other day at work. The same story was shared about cutting up onions. Also, remember a couple of months ago when, an advertisement ran on T.V about insoles that you put in your shoes that absorbed toxins out of your body? Come to find out that the active ingredient is onion powder.

You can't prove that a non event was because of something you did.
As for claiming that not getting flu was because you had onions around.... I didn't have flu last year, or the year before, or the year before.... And I DON'T have onions around. The only constant in my life (and home) is my border collie. That must be it then. Border collies stop you getting flu!